# pua
## English
### Noun

pua (plural puas)
* A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

### See also

* shim-pua marriage

### Anagrams

* APU, AUP, Pau, UAP, UPA, pau

## Catalan
### Etymology

Uncertain. Cognate to Spanish púa, Galician puga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpu.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpu.a]
* Rhymes: -ua

### Noun

pua f (plural pues)
* sharp point, prong, spike
* tooth (of a comb)
* tine (of a fork)
    Synonym: pollegó
* thorn
* quill
* (music) plectrum
* (figurative) a crafty person

#### Derived terms

* corn amb pues
* espuar
* puada
* puat

### Further reading

* “pua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cimbrian
### Noun

pua m (plural puam)
* boy

### References

* Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Ese
### Noun

pua
* edible bamboo shoots

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pua
* third-person singular past historic of puer

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; blossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

### Noun

pua
* (botany) flower
* progeny, child
* young (of fish, etc)
* arrow, dart

### Verb

pua
* (intransitive) to blossom
* (intransitive) to emerge, issue

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puaʔ/

### Noun

pua
* blanket
* a fabric woven using cotton or silk thread that is always involved ceremonially in festivals and celebrations, in association with traditional customs and beliefs.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”) (compare with Malay bunga), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.a/, [pʉ.ɐ]

### Noun

pua
* (botany) flower
    Synonym: putiputi

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bō-, a stem meaning “father; brother; male relative”. Compare Pennsylvania German Buh, English boy.

### Noun

pua m
* boy

### References

* “pua” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pugia, from Latin pungō (“to prick, to puncture, to sting”). Cognate with Galician puga, púa and Spanish púa. The sense "womanizer", "player" is influenced by English PUA.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpu.ɐ/
* Hyphenation: pu‧a

### Noun

pua f (plural puas)
* sharp end; point
* drill; bit (rotary cutting tool)
    Synonyms: broca, verruma
* sting
* (Brazil, Northeast Region, colloquial) womanizer, player

## Rapa Nui
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

### Noun

pua
* (botany) flower

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Chichewa mphuno and Shona mhuno.

#### Noun

pua class V (plural mapua class VI)
* nose

##### Derived terms

* tundu la pua

### Etymology 2

A very old borrowing, ultimately from Persian پولاد (pulâd).

#### Noun

pua class IX (no plural)
* steel
    Synonym: feleji

## Tahitian
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

### Noun

pua
* (botany) flower

## White Hmong
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puə̯˧/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *pæk (“hundred”), borrowed from Middle Chinese 百 (MC paek, “hundred”).

#### Numeral

pua
* hundred

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 布 (MC puH, “to spread out; cloth”).

#### Verb

pua
* to lay out, to lay on a surface
* to prepare a flat surface, to prepare a level place on the ground
* to spread on a flat surface
    pua pob zeb ― to pave with stone
    pua chaw pw ― to prepare a sleeping place

### References

* Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 235-6.
* ↑ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 31; 216; 281.
* ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101031002604/http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/25